“Living in France while the Falklands War was going on, I felt a profou...” — Simon McBurney Quote

“Living in France while the Falklands War was going on, I felt a profound sense of shame and betrayal, just as I did by the war in Iraq. People have asked why I don't talk about that directly in my plays. Well, politics needs to be articulated in many different ways.”

“Any play that's making a point is less interesting than something that stays with you and suggests something further.”

“I remember the fact that milk was delivered every day by a milkman. In summer, my mother would make what now seem in my middle-aged imagination the most delicious iced milkshakes.”

“When we feed people, we should only feed them healthy food. They go to the government because they don't have any other choices. So it's almost a betrayal when you know someone has no other choice but to eat what you give them, and you're giving them food that feeds their chronic diseases.”

“When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again.”

“When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.”